Rhetoric Unit Overview

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Knowledge and Skills:
  • American Orators and Speeches
  • Rhetorical Devices and Appeals
  • Relevant Historical Background
  • Significance of Speaker, Purpose, Audience and Medium
  • Rhetorical Devices Packet, Appeals Handout

Additional Unit Vocabulary:
  • Rhetoric
  • Mythos
  • Argumentation
  • Claim, Warrant, Support
  • Induction
  • Deduction
  • Logical Fallacy
  • Red Herring
  • Ad Hominem
  • Circular Reasoning
  • Begging the Question
  • Concession to the Opposition
  • Elevated Language
  • Generalization
  • Premise

Readings:
  • "Speech in the Virginia Convention"
  • "Women's Rights are Human Rights"
  • "from American Crisis"
  • "Sacred Soil"
  • "I Will Fight No More Forever"
  • "The Gettysburg Address"
  • "Ain't I a Woman?"
  • "After Being Convicted of Voting in the 1872 Election"
  • "I Have a Dream"
  • "Inaugural Address"- JFK
  • "The Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address"
  • "Addrss to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People"